Chatham Manor

Chatham Manor is a Georgian-style manor house located along the Rappahannock River opposite Fredericksburg in Stafford County, Virginia. It was built in 1771, and it was the center of a large and thriving plantation until the American Civil War; in December 1862, Union general Ambrose Burnside used the manor as his headquarters during the Battle of Fredericksburg. It was the only private residence in the United States visited by US Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Dwight D. Eisenhower, and it was willed to the National Park Service in 1975, upon which the NPS refurbished the manor as a showpiece and as the headquarters of the Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park.